Typographic numbering-machine.



' B. B'. CONRAD D D. SANDER.

TYPOGRAPHIG NUMBRING MACHINE.

APDLIGATIDN FILED MAR. 1, 1909.

920,91 7, Patented May 11, 1909.

H [Il i www UNrrnn sfrarns rarsnr BENJAMIN B. CONRAD AND FRANK SANDER,O'l" NEW YORK, N. Y., SSIGNORS IO AMERICAN NUMBERING- MACHINE COMPANY,O' BROOKLYN, NE YORK, jx CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

TYPOGBAPHIC NUMBERING'JYIOIIINE.

Specification of Letters latent.

Patented If'ay l l, 1909,

chines, oll which the following is a clear, lull, and exact description.

This invention relates to numbering guachines, inore particularly that t#pe olf niachine known as a typographie inachine. A

typographie inachine is one adapted to be locked up with type, and tohave its number Wheels actuated automatically upon the suecessiveoperations ol' a printi *o* press.

The invention relates particularljT to a niachine ol' the type set lorthin United States latent 910,866, dated January 26th, 1909, and issuedAto these applicants assignee.

The present invention is vl'or a niachine which has inany ol thecharacteristics ol' the machine oll the patent referred to, but containscertain iniproveinents in ineans for se* curing the detachable plungerainl its casing to the inain l'rainej. and also in details ollconstruction of the said plunger casing.

The scope oll our invention will he pointed out in the clainis.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 'l is a side elevation ol ainachine constr .cted according to our invention. Fig. 2 is a leitliandend view olI Fig. l.

Fig. 3 is a section ol a part of the niachine on line llig. 2. Fig. 4 isa j )ersjiiective view of the plul and plunger casing. 5 is a top planor so inuch ol the n'iachine as is shown in F 3. Fig. 6 is a lel't-handend vieuv oi the ina-in casing With the plunger and plunger casingrenioved. Fig. 7 is a perspective view ol' the jilunger casing. Fig. Sis a perspective vieu'v ol' the respective jaws on the niain l'raine,which are adapted to receive and liold thY plunger and plunger casing,and Fig. Q a side elevation oll a part ol' the inain trane, and ol'l theplunger and plunge: casing, shoufing the position ol the 'parts upon theinsertion oil the plunger and plunger casing into the inain traine.

As shown in the drawings, i is the U shaped inain iranie, 2 is a shaltpassing therethrough; 3 is the ordinary pawl swing; 4 are the numberWheels 5 are the usual detaining pz wls suoli as used in anjTnuiul'iering inacliine.

The inain l'ranie l is provided with two projecting j aufs 6, havingelongated slots '7, therein, and connnunicating passages 8 leadingl'roni the outer edge ol' said jaws to the elongated slots 7. The shalt2 extends through an opening in the n'iain l'ranie between the two jaws,and carries a rocking arm IS provided iith pins 12 passing through slotsIl and engaging the paivl swing in the saine manner in which the saisieis engaged in th structure shown in the alorenentioned United Statespatent.

The plunger 'l0 is provided with a recess 9 for the rocking arin i3, andwith a spring le adapted to hear upon the hase oi' the plunger casing,also like the device slioirn in the aforesaid patent. The plunger casingis composed. preferably of one sheet olE steel bent up as sno'ivn inFig. .7, and provided with projecting studs l5, one on each side andloef lov: a slot 1G in the side .ralls of the casing. The hase thecasing l? is turned at right angles out ot the inaterial of the hack, asare also the sides 18, so as to lo in a three-sided box, such slim i inFig. 7. rlhe plunger itself is provided with tivo proj ccting pins I9,which, upon the compression of the spring le, ray 'ie inserned into theslot lo in the side walls of the plunger casing. ln order to lock theplunger casing and plunger into position `with the in ain traine, theplunger is da pressed until the pins i9 ol'v the plunger and the pins l5of the casing occupjv the position slioifrn in ITigA Q, when they maylio pushed through the passage 3, and into the elongated slot Uponreleasing the plunger when the` pins are in the slot 7, the spring `williuunediateljT secure the parts as sliorxn in Fig. i in which positionthe parts ".iill reina-in during all usual operations of the inacliine.it will he noticed that the pins of the slot and the passage leading tothe slot constitute a forni of rosilientlj operated latch inechanisin,

which will autoinaticalljT lock the plunger lli Without others, and newfeatures thereof might be combined with elements old in the art indiverse Ways, although the herein described type is regarded asembodying substantial improvements over such iiiodi'licafollowing claimsis intended to cover all the generic and specilic features of theinvention herein described, and all statements of the scope of theinvention which as a matter of language might be said to falltherebetween.

Ne claim as our invention l. The hei'ein described numbering machinecomprising a main frame, a shaft therefor, number Wheels, pavl siting,plunger and operating means connecting said plunger and swing, a casingfor said plunger adapted to i'lt the end of the main frame, butseparable roin said main frame, and spring operated pins on the plungerand plunger casing, and jaivs to receive said pins in the main traine.

2. The herein described numbering machine comprising a main Vframe,recep' jaws thereon, a plunger, a shaft, num-nei' Wheels, pau/l saving,operative mechanism for connecting the paivl swing th the plunger,plunger casing adapted for attachment and detachment from the maintraine, said plunger casing and plunger carrying pins l'or reception bysaid jaws. 1

3. The herein described numbering niachine comprising a main frame,receptive jaws thereon, a plunger and plunger casing, a shaft, numberWheels, pavvl swing, operative mechanism for connecting the paul swingwith the plunger, the said plunger and plunger casing adapted lorattachment and detachment from the niain frame, said pluncaf-aiiig andplunger carrying pins for rcception by said jans, said jaws having elongated slots and passages communicating between said slots and the edgeof the frame.

iiechanism for securing a detachable plunger and plunger casingto themain traine oi a typographie numbering machine, consisting of jaw-likeextensions oi the main frame, elongated vertical slots therein, apassage communicating with said slots, and terminating at the edge ol"the jaws, pins rc- Il' niently held apart upon the detachable )arts andadapted to be cci ipressed for en- Arance into the passage, whereby uponaching the slot at the end olfl the passage, iev uill be sprung apart bythe spring.

o. A typographie numbering machine comprising a traine, number izlieelsand o perative mechanism. therefor, a plunger and plunger casingremovable from saio frame, and a resilient catch niechaiiisi'n adaptedto loch the plunger and plunger casing into place upon the properplacing of the same in operative relation 'ui xli the niain lranie andoperative mechanism.

6. A typograpliic numbering machine comprising a traine, number wheelsand operative mechanism tlierelor, a plunger and spring, and plungercasing removable lroni said traine, and a resilient catch mechanismadapted to loclr the plunger and plunger casing into place upon theproper placing of the `saine in operative relation 'uith the main lraineand eoerative mechanism said resilil ent catch mechanism beingoperz'ited by a spring, said spring being the normal plunger operatingspring. j

Signed at Brooklyn, New i orli, this 19th day of l `ebruary 1909.

BERJA/MMR B. CONRAD. F lAll .l BANDE l. il' itiiesses Camina i lriiin,

